Following a BBC investigation, Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using keywords like "transphobic", "white supremacists", and "anti-gay" Techmeme · 4 days ago
CES chief defends invite for Ivanka Trump – The man in charge of next week’s giant CES tech expo has said that Ivanka Trump has done "great work" and will help it focus attendees’ minds on job-related issues for the future. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
GirlsDoPorn: Young women win legal battle over video con – A US judge has awarded $12.8m (£9.8m) to 22 unnamed women, ruling that they were tricked into appearing in widely distributed online porn videos. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Climate change hope for hydrogen fuel: “Natural gas is being blended with 20% hydrogen in a trial that’s of national significance… If a 20% blend were to be rolled out across Britain, it would reduce emissions of CO2 by six million tonnes – equivalent to taking 2.5 million cars off the road.” Reddit · 3 weeks ago
A look at dating apps like Lumen and OurTime that cater exclusively to users over 50, who often find being approached by much younger users unsettling Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency – A Russian computer programmer involved in the collapse of a big cryptocurrency exchange says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets to fraudsters posing as FSB agents, according to documents obtained by BBC Russian. Reddit · 3 weeks ago
France to scan social media for tax cheats. The French government can go ahead with plans to trawl social media to detect tax avoidance, the constitutional court has ruled. Reddit · 3 weeks ago
YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge – YouTube has reinstated hundreds of crypto-currency related channels after admitting it had removed them "in error". Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Twitch sued for £2.1bn over Premier League by Russian firm: Russia’s third-largest internet company is suing streaming service Twitch for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League games. Reddit · 1 month ago
Iran has foiled a second cyber-attack in under a week, the country’s telecommunications minister says. Reddit · 1 month ago
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped – It takes minutes for most new Minecraft players to work out how to dig up the diamonds that are key to the game, but training artificial intelligence to do it has proved harder than expected. Reddit · 1 month ago
Where the money is really made at Amazon – Andy Jassy may not be famous like his boss Jeff Bezos, but he runs Amazon Web Services (AWS), perhaps the most important part of the Amazon empire. Reddit · 1 month ago
YouTube bans ‘malicious insults and veiled threats’ – YouTube will no longer allow videos that "maliciously insult someone" based on "protected attributes" such as race, gender identity or sexuality. Reddit · 1 month ago
'I slept in a cupboard for three months' – Mathias Mikkelsen, designer & founder of Memory Designer News · 1 month ago
Chinese residents worry about rise of facial recognition – A survey by a Beijing research institute indicates growing pushback against facial recognition in China. Reddit · 2 months ago
TikTok sent US user data to China, lawsuit claims – Video-sharing app TikTok has been hit with a class action lawsuit in the US that claims it transferred "vast quantities" of user data to China. Reddit · 2 months ago
Amazon pulls Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments – Amazon has withdrawn a range of "Christmas ornaments" displaying images of a former concentration camp that sellers had posted on its website. Reddit · 2 months ago